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The humanities and the understanding of reality / Monroe C. Beardsley [et al.] ; edited by Thomas B. Stroup.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beardsley, Monroe C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanities.
- Education, Higher.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (97 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1966.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowledge, three eminent literary scholars and a distinguished journalist in these essays address themselves to the question, ""Do the humanities provide a form of understanding of reality that the sciences do not?""Monroe C. Beardsley maintains that the humanities considered as contributors to knowledge must deal with the same subject matter as the sciences, but literature and the arts can enlarge our powers of understanding human nature, although not in the way the sciences do (under empirically or
- Contents:
- The humanities and human understanding, by M. C. Beardsley.
- Speculation and concern, by N. Frye.
- The university and the literary public, by F. Kermode.
- A journalist looks at the humanities, by B. Bingham.
- Notes:
- Four papers delivered as lectures at the conference on the humanities held as a part of the centennial program at the University of Kentucky on October 22-23, 1965.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-6446-X
- OCLC:
- 587398878
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